In addition to the tournaments in Marseille, Córdoba and Dallas, Men’s tennis has a non-scoring event this week, the UTS tournament in Oslowhich brings together players of the stature of Andrey Rublev, Casper Ruud, Holger Rune or Gael Monfils, who experienced this Friday one of the strangest moments of his long career sporty.
And the Frenchman was disqualified without having to set foot on the track. According to the organization “A playful exchange in the locker room between Gael Monfils and tournament supervisor Stephane Apostolou ended in a minor injury for the supervisor“, which forced them to apply the regulations and leave him out of the tournament.
“UTS is 100% convinced that there was no bad intention on Gael’s part, but because there was an injury suffered by an officer, although a minor, we felt there was no alternative but to disqualify him” they explained.
“Gael accepted the disqualification and he and the supervisor parted ways on amicable terms,” the statement concluded.
So, Monfils left Oslo with only one match behind him, the one he played a few hours before the match Alex de Minaur, who won 15-12, 17-8, 16-9.
Another Frenchman, Lucas Pouille, will succeed him.
Source: La Verdad
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